[brummm]

How can you say this with the current state of US politics? It's clearly inferior leading to such poor outcomes.

[vintermann]

People act as if it's a fluke, as if "if we could get back to how things were just before all this, things would stay better!". No, we don't want to drive off the cliff, but we do want back to that time we barged full speed past all the "road closed ahead" signs.